Copper Theft Death

DRUMRIGHT, Okla. (AP) Police say a Cushing man was electrocuted as he tried to steal copper near a transformer in Drumright.

Assistant police chief Bill Lyon told the Stillwater NewsPress that according to a witness, 18-year-old Cody Holland had one hand on a copper ground wire with a negative charge when he fell onto the transformer that had a positive charge.

Lyon says the copper wires and transformer were behind a chain-link fence with a high-voltage sign along an oil lease road.

Lyon says the witness, whose name wasn't released, called his father and they took Holland to Drumright Regional Hospital. He was pronounced dead.